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Every once in a while, I get behind the curve with shop mess, and it was an issue last year. That’s when I was refinishing furniture, and building a dining room table for my handicapped step daughter’s new condo. I got so dang tired of painting and building that I have taken a 5 month vacation from the shop.

All is well here. Doing some hobby stuff on the computer mostly, right now. Looking forward to seeing the rack put together, and with gear in it…

FWIW, I HAVE been making progress getting the junk cleared, organized, and put where it belongs. For the most part. I managed to drop my HF cordless drill on the way back in the house last night and opted to leave it for now…. I was mad enough at it I was likely to smash it on the floor yesterday. Low powered junker that it is, but it is useful most of the time, just when things get stubborn is when I have an issue with it…

Nothing spectacular about the Mars findings. But a negative finding would have been more indicative that there never was life on Mars. At least, that’s the way I see it. Of course, the samplings by Curiosity, although guided, still are so sparse as to have a huge possibility of missing life if it was ever there.

This just seems like an indication that it is worth pursuing the search. Organic compounds are all over the solar system, as I understand it. And they found similar compounds in meteorites thought to have originated from Mars.

I don’t follow this closely, but do read the Planetary Society Newletter regularly, since I have been a member since 1987. Still waiting for something definitive, but it will take a more sophisticated laboratory on Mars, or bringing samples home to Earth.

Also, got to watch for the politics involved, anything to keep the money flowing to NASA… (-: